La Biblia en accion / The Bible in Action

Take a trip to the Everglades as you practice addition! About one million people visit Everglades National Park every year to see the unique animals, reptiles, birds, and fish that call this unique place home. Students will practice addition within 100 while engaged in reading about the Everglades. This nonfiction math book combines math and literacy skills, and uses real-life examples of problem solving to teach subject area content. The full-color images, intriguing sidebars, practice problems, and math diagrams make learning math concepts relevant and fun. Text features include a table of...

Kurdo Baksi, compañero y confidente de Stieg Larsson, proporciona información de primera mano contada con gran humanidad sobre un autor ya mítico.¿Cómo llegó a convertirse Stieg Larsson, uno de los líderes de la lucha contra el racismo y el fascismo en Suecia, en uno de los autores más leídos del mundo? Para entender esto hay que aproximarse al hombre que hay detrás de Millennium, a ese autor enigmático y fascinante. Este libro nos proporciona las respuestas desde un acercamiento al creador de Lisbeth Salander por uno de sus mejores amigos, el también periodista Kurdo Baksi, que...

Learn about the rich history of Mission San Luis Rey de Francia: how it started, the people who ran it, the indigenous population, and its legacy today.

As they say, necessity is the mother of invention, and this book introduces readers to 14 women who invented very useful, helpful items. They include Chicago native Margaret Wilcox who invented the car heater, Indiana native Marion O'Brien Donovan who invented disposable diapers, Pennsylvania native Stephanie Kwolek who invented Kevlar, and Austria-born actress Hedy Lamar whose secret communications systems led to the creation of WiFi, Bluetooth, and GPS.